Biografia

Life of the Rev. William Morgan

John Lloyd Morgan · 1886 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Elliot Stock , 1886. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this very scarce biography concerning the life of Welsh evangelical cleric William Morgan, carried out by his son. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original cloth binding. This biographical wo...

The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn; Elizabeth Bisland [ed] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this collection of letters written by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his life in Japan. The first trade edition. Also published in a limited edition in the same year. Illustrated with a monochr...

Down All the Days

Christy Brown · 1970 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this playful expansion of the author's previous work 'My Left Foot' from Irish writer Christy Brown. First edition. A stream-of-consciousness novel drawn largely from a playful expansion ...

Jean Stafford: A Biography

David Roberts · 1988 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,805)

Boston , Little Brown and Company, 1988. First edition. Hardback. A fine first edition of this compassionate biography delving into the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winner, Jean Stafford. A first edition advance copy of this work.With special advance copy materials, includi...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life

Charles Kingsley; His Wife [editor] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1914. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of letters and memories from the life of Charles Kingsley. Later edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of letters and memories of the life of Charles Kingsley, a broad churc...

Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple

James Boswell · 1857 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Richard Bentley, 1857. First edition. Leather. A smart first edition of this collection of letters written by James Boswell to the Reverend William Johnson Temple. First edition. Published from the original manuscripts. A collection of letters from James Boswell, a Sco...

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

Sir Walter Scott · 1890 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1890. Cloth. A smart set of the journal of Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright, Sir Walter Scott. Complete in two volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and vignette title page. Volume one also contains a map of Abbotsf...

The Suburban Child

James Kenward · 1955 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955 . First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this interesting autobiographical work surrounding 'Suburbia' by James Kenward, illustrated throughout by Edward Ardizzone. First edition, in the publisher's original paper...

Studies in Ruskin

Edward T. Cook · 1890 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Orpington, George Allen, 1890 . First edition. Cloth. A limited edition large paper copy of Edward T. Cook's study of John Ruskin, with illustrations throughout. First edition, in the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Limited edition large paper copy. Written ...

Drawn from Memory

Ernest H. Shepard · 1957 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this biographical sketch of the author's childhood with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with gravure frontispiece and over one hundred in-text images. A charming coll...

English Caravanners in the Wild West

Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw · 1926 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw's account of her experiences while caravanning in the wild West, with illustrations throughout. The first edition. A prize copy, awarded to one 'A. Heywo...

Through Cities and Prairie Lands: Sketches of an American Tour

Lady Duffus Hardy · 1881 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1881. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this work by Lady Hardy Duffus. The scarce first edition. Also published in the same year by R. Worthington in New York. In the publisher's original cloth. This work was written by Englis...

Remembrance of Things Past

Sir Henry Studdy Theobald · 1935 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce autobiography by Sir Henry Studdy Theobald. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original publisher's quarter cloth with paper to the boards. Illustrated with a frontispiece po...

Familiar Letters from Italy, to a Friend in England

Peter Beckford · 1805 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Printed and sold by J Easton, 1805. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Peter Beckford's collected familiar letters from Italy in two uniform leather bound volumes. The first edition of this work, in two volumes. Bound without half titles. Peter Beckford...

The Letters of Samuel Johnson

R. W. Chapman · 1952 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1952. Cloth. Three volumes of the letters of writer and critic Samuel Johnson, with illustrations. A new edition copy, complete in three volumes. These volumes were planned as a supplement to Boswell's great Life of Johnson with the lette...

Mãƒâ©Moires de Philippe de Commynes

Philippe de Commynes; B. de Mandrot [ed.] · 1901 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Paris, Alphonse Picard et Fils , 1901-1903. Cloth. A new edition of this two-volume autobiography of the French writer Philippe de Commynes, with notes and an introduction. An uncommon two-volume work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to the front paste...

A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Lady Holland; Mrs Austin · 1855 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Leather. A leather bound copy of the witty Reverend's memoir. A complete two-volume memoir of the popular writer and Anglican cleric, Sydney Smith, written by his daughter. With a selection from his letters to volume 2. A...

Aus Meinem Leben Und Aus Meiner Beit

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Berlin, Wilhelm Hert, 1892. Leather. A scarce biography of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in one volume, in the German language. German language. Scarce work. With portrait frontispiece. The biography of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who reigned from 1772 to his ...

My Story

Leonard Studley · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

not stated , Leonard Studley, 1988. First edition. Paperback. A signed copy of this personal memoir of West Dorset. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. This volume recalls eighty years in the Broadwindsor era of the Hill Country of West Dorset and is a memoir of ...

Life of Lord Jeffrey

Lord Cockburn · 1852 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London , Adam and Charles Black , 1852. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume set of the Life of Lord Jeffrey, in its first edition. A complete two volume set, in the first edition. Lord Jeffrey was a Scottish Judge and literary critic and these volumes contain details ...